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Volume 5, September 24, 2009 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) SEPT – OCT DATABASE TRIALS FOCUS ON CURRENT EVENTS

2) STATE LIBRARY EVENTS VIA STREAMING VIDEO

3) WTBBL GALLERY OF TACTILE ART

4) POET LAUREATE APPLICATIONS SOUGHT

5) BCR ONLINE WORKSHOPS

6) FREE INFOPEOPLE WEBINAR WITH GEORGE AND JOAN

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1) SEPT – OCT DATABASE TRIALS FOCUS ON CURRENT EVENTS

Welcome to the first installation of the Hard Times Resource Guide: Resource of the Week.

Clippings – September 21, 2009 Library News Tacoma Public Library Board of Trustees has been briefed on plans to spend $150,000 to remodel the Kobetich branch and is scheduled to vote on approving the funding later this month. (Photo) (Tacoma Weekly, 9.3.09) http://www.tacomaweekly.com/article/3498/ Puyallup Public Library updated its Web site including new themes, redesigned layout, tab navigation and interactive features.

I was reminded today that libraries are places where people work - not just places where people come to hang out, find information, relax and meet friends, use a wireless connection, attend a story time, or much more. A message came across my computer screen today from the Oregon library email discussion list, Libs-Or, posted by Jane S. Kirby.

Volume 5, September 17, 2009 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) FREE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES IN SEPTEMBER, PART TWO

2) BOOKS FOR BABIES GRANTS – DEADLINE NEAR

3) PNC/MLA ANNUAL MEETING

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1) FREE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES IN SEPTEMBER, PART TWO

A sizable budget deficit is forcing the town of Roy to do what no town wants to do: close the Roy City Library until the beginning of the new year. In the last year or so the Roy Library had become the place for the local teenagers to hang out to use the computers and check out materials.

Clippings – September 7, 2009 Library News CHEERS ... to Washington State Librarian Jan Walsh. Working with her staff and Washington's library community, Walsh has spearheaded an online resource guide to help the state's 315,853 unemployed.

Volume 5, September 10, 2009 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) FREE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES IN SEPTEMBER, PART ONE

2) ALA UPDATE ON LEAD IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS

3) ALL ROADS LEAD TO WALE

4) LEARNING FOR LIFE

5) UNDERSTANDING AND COPING WITH STRESS – FREE WEBINAR

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1) FREE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES IN SEPTEMBER, PART ONE

These media mentions are compiled by Brian Zylstra, Deputy Communications Director for the Office of the Secretary of State, and passed along to us. The following links cover Media Clips provided August 06, 2009 – September 04, 2009.